My husband brought me home a bag of apples from the local orchard recently. The man knows the way to my heart. If you add up all the apples I’ve eaten in my lifetime as after school snacks or in my grandmother’s apple dumplings, I’m sure the number is in the thousands. I love apples and they are a regular part of my diet.

A healthy obsession with apples can benefit our health in several ways. Apples are one of the best sources of polyphenols, which are powerful anti-oxidant nutrients that can prevent or reverse damage in your body’s cells caused by aging, the environment, and your lifestyle. They are also a good source of fiber and vitamin B7 or biotin, an essential nutrient that assists in breaking down fats, carbohydrates, and proteins in food.

When I was a kid, I can remember getting

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